About the Authors

Suman Bagga

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

Yvonne Lucero

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

Kimberly Apodaca

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

Wathsala Rajapakse

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

Phillip Lujan

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology, Weed Science, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

Jose Luis Ortega

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

Champa Sengupta-Gopalan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

csgopala@nmsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.